privy
IPA: prˈɪvi
noun
- An outdoor facility for urination and defecation, whether open (latrine) or enclosed (outhouse).
- A lavatory: a room with a toilet.
- A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.
- (law) A partaker; one having an interest in an action, contract, etc. to which he is not himself a party.
adjective
- (now chiefly historical) Private, exclusive; not public; one's own.
- (now rare, archaic) Secret, hidden, concealed.
- With knowledge of; party to; let in on.
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Examples of "privy" in Sentences
- Just recently, it dawned on me that the privy was a one-holer.
- Shivering, he mooched outside to what Uncle Gib called the privy and he the “bog.”
- Posted in privy council clerk kevin lynch, public service minority gap, restorative justice.
- I didn't use actual slang words, per se, except for "necessary" (which is what ladies called the privy or outhouse).
- The word privy is one of the earliest euphemisms used in England; an anonymous writer at the turn of the fifteenth century advised
- Were they prevailed on to call a privy meeting tomorrow, with a loaded quorum, Hauksberg would depart with the authority he needed.
- The privy is a straight "Parson's bench" style with 40 holes; ten on each side wall and twenty back to back in the middle of the building.
- journalists have been sent to Pyongyang and are undergoing a direct investigation '' by the North's spy agency and military, Yonhap quoted a source in China it described as privy to North Korean affairs.
- Bacillus coli inhabits the internal tract of cattle as well as of man, but when in a farmyard the privy is as near to the shallow well as is the dung heap, it is not exactly safe to suppose that these and other contaminating microbes are derived only from harmless cattle.
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